Hadn't heard about it (the show, nor the history behind it). I just read through the Wikipedia page, and it sounds interesting - I'm in.

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It looks like a reality show (not a competition, but exaggerated reality) - the video promo talks about the curse and how six people have died so far and the curse says one more must die and the two brothers are going over. It's definitely hamming it up.

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I've always loved the story behind Oak Island money pit, but really, there is no treasure there.

If you buried treasure, would you provide clues that told people they were digging in the right spot and that it is located just 40 more feet until they find it? lol. Not likely. The only purpose for that stone is to keep the story going.

While I don't believe that any type of treasure exists on Oak Island (seriously, who would have time to bury something hundreds of feet below the surface and create 5 flooding channels), I did enjoy the pilot and am sticking with it.

Of course since we know this was filmed last year, if they actually found anything it would've been all over the news. So I am watching knowing they didn't uncover any treasure.

I'm gritting my teeth through this. The only way we're going to get a real investigation with the kind of equipment it'll take to have a chance of finding out who built all this and why, is to pay for it with a shamelessly exploitative, terrible show, and that's what we're getting. Them dragging out the artificial suspense on every little thing, and making all this overblown emphasis on the thinnest and most wild of legends, is really grating. I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it through five hours of that.

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At least now we know that there really are old coconut fibers in at least one spot on the island. But really, do you need that to justify the continued search? To me, the fact that somebody constructed a pit with wooden plank barriers every x feet is enough to justify a full excavation thereof.

I had never heard of Oak Island before seeing this thread today. I read the Wikipedia article on it and it got me really excited about this TV show. Now I read these last posts in the thread and I'm completely turned off. Fake drama is the biggest thing I hate in reality TV. It would be nice if they just made a documentary on the history of the island and such. I'd watch that in a second.

I had never heard of Oak Island before seeing this thread today. I read the Wikipedia article on it and it got me really excited about this TV show. Now I read these last posts in the thread and I'm completely turned off. Fake drama is the biggest thing I hate in reality TV. It would be nice if they just made a documentary on the history of the island and such. I'd watch that in a second.

I was in the same boat as you. Tried to watch an episode and couldn't get through it. Pretty lame. Might as well have been a searching for Bigfoot or Loch Ness Monster show.

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It would be interesting if they talked about some of the natural or non-treasure related theories for Oak Island. The really interesting one I had seen was basically a viking ship turned on end. But I'm sure that Shakespeare's lost plays or the ark or the covenant are more exciting then a viking ship, even if it is a much more reasonable explanation.

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I'd given up but looked at the most recent one last night, figuring they would have gotten past the bits where the lady was mourning her long dead son/husband/whatever. Starts with them ready to drain the swamp, some action! Off and on fast forward to get past all the baloney bits and then the start the pumps, in the last 20 seconds of the show. What a waste.

I am watching because I have always been fascinated by Oak Island (years ago I read the same article the brothers did, but never quite got obsessed like they did). At the end of the last episode it said, "On the next episode", but I don't see anything listed on my TiVo. Has the show been cancelled? Taking a hiatus for Super Bowl Sunday?

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Ok, so now are we finally getting somewhere? I thought it was pretty great that the dude predicted the location of another stone based on some crazy code hidden in the works of Shakespeare, and they did in fact find a stone within a reasonable distance. Sure, it's probably just a coincidence, but it was enough to redeem that episode, at least.

Now we're getting ready to see if the "vault" does in fact lie in the other spot he predicted, and the metal detector/metal probing seems to indicate that something is there, which of course, will waste the entire episode before they end with another cliffhanger.

Still not happy with the format. Oak Island is just begging for a "Final Report" type treatment. That NatGeo show was amazing for cutting through the crap and dealing only in facts.